Ethics-Governance: Article: Imagining a World Where Labor Rights Trump Property Rights

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Imagining a World Where Labor Rights Trump Property Rights Imagining a World Where Labor Rights Trump Property Rights By Marjorie Kelly Note: Shel Horowitz's book, Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, contains a great deal of other information about the interplay of marketing and social change, and ways to move a business toward both environmental and economic sustainablity. The "free market" and "free trade" are very nearly a state religion in the United States today. But what's quietly ignored in these phrases is a little thing called "property rights," which we might better term the rights of wealth holders. These are the only human rights the free market respects. We see these rights protected in trade agreements, when Mexico is told to stop nationalizing industries, or when the World Trade Organization insists nations change intellectual property laws to protect corporate patents. The free-trade regime insists wealth be protected. It equally insists the environment not be protected. Full Article: http://www.frugalmarketing.com/dtb/laborrights.shtml


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